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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. 703 687 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 558 0 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 529 203 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 90 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 83 23 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Condensed history of regiments. 81 23 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 68 0 Browse Search
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac 66 0 Browse Search
Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant 62 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 54 0 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II.. You can also browse the collection for Spottsylvania (Virginia, United States) or search for Spottsylvania (Virginia, United States) in all documents.

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kewise destroyed by explosions, but not of torpedoes. Gen. Grant's flanking advance from Spottsylvania to the North Anna was admirably planned and executed without loss — a single blow aimed by HEnlisted Men.Officers.Enlisted Men. WildernessMay 5 to 122698,0191,01718,2611776,66729,410 SpottsylvaniaMay 12 to 211142,0322597,6973124810,881 North AnnaMay 21 to 3112138671,06333241,607 Cold Ha7 note.--The first line of the above table includes several days' desperate fighting at Spottsylvania, in which our losses were fully 10,000. Our actual losses in the Wilderness were rather under than over 20,000, and at Spottsylvania just about as many. These corrections, however, make no difference in the aggregates given above. Whether the foregoing returns of losses do or do not in Its losses of guns were mainly incurred at Reams's station; its gains were chiefly made at Spottsylvania. Grant's conduct of this campaign was not satisfactory to the Confederate critics, who ga
e, General. Lt-General U. S. Grant. The parting of Lee with his devoted followers was a sad one. Of the proud army which, dating its victories from Bull Run, had driven McClellan from before Richmond, and withstood his best effort at Antietam, and shattered Burnside's host at Fredericksburg, and worsted Looker at Chancellorsville, and fought Meade so stoutly, though unsuccessfully, before Gettysburg, and baffled Grant's bounteous resources and desperate efforts in the Wilderness, at Spottsylvania, on the North Anna, at Cold Harbor, and before Petersburg and Richmond, a mere wreck remained. It is said that 27,000 were included in Lee's capitulation; but, of these, not more than 10,000 had been able to carry their arms thus far on their hopeless and almost foodless flight. Barely 19 miles from Lynchburg when surrendered, the physical possibility of forcing their way thither, even at the cost of half their number, no longer remained. And, if they were all safely there, what then?
; marches on Chancellorsville, 566; at the battles of the Wilderness, 568 to 571; charges at Spottsylvania. 552; at Cold Harbor, 580 to 582; his Mine explosion, 591. Burns, Gen., repels Magruder'e Wilderness. 567 to 571; captures Gen. Johnson and staff, with 3,000 men and 30: guns. at Spottsylvania, 571-2; at Cold Harbor, 580 to 582; north of the James, 589; his fight at Reams's Station, 5, Hon. Geo. W., killed at Shiloh, 70. Johnson, Major-Gen. Edward, captured by Hancock at Spottsylvania, 572. Johnson, Gen. R. W., at Chickamauga, 415; cooperates against Bragg at Lookout Mountpahannock, 396; prepares to fight Grant, 566; fights Grant in the Wilderness, 567 to 571: at Spottsylvania, 572-3; Cold Harbor, 580; defense of the massacre at Fort Pillow, 629; attacks Warren and Sh56; Centerville, 395; commands the 5th corps, 564; at the Wilderness, 567 to 571; charges at Spottsylvania, 572: at Cold Harbor, 580 to 582 ; destroys Weldon Railroad. 726; defeats Pegram at Dabney's